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MooDoomorning all07:10
diddledanyawnage07:49
MooDoo+107:51
TheOpenSourcerer+10007:56
popey07:58
directhex+900107:58
MooDoodirecthex: always the last word ;)07:59
SuperMatto/07:59
dwatkins<HAL> Good morning, Dave </HAL>08:00
popeyhttps://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/36175397573899059208:00
popeyoof08:00
SuperMattD: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:08:01
dwatkinsfail08:01
dwatkinsWhat does DPA stand for in this context? Some kind of validation?08:03
TheOpenSourcererOn a lighter note but quite amusing: http://newsthump.com/2013/07/25/wonga-com-retaliates-by-unveiling-believable-religion/08:03
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neuroi don't understand, how can they create a religion?08:04
neurothis is disgusting08:05
neuroi'm going to complain to my MP08:05
neuromaybe i should set up an e-petition, those things always get results08:05
* popey notes it's newsthump08:06
SuperMattpopey: that link is getting around my tweetors quite quickly08:06
neuroi don't care what news site it is, it's disgraceful!!08:06
neuroin fact, let's ban this news site08:06
czajkowskialoha08:06
* neuro stops trying to be "funny"08:06
neurotoo early on a monday for comedy08:06
* MooDoo nearo had a go at neuro till he realised he was joking lol08:07
MooDootoo early :D08:07
neurohaha08:07
neurowas wondering who would bite first08:07
neuroi love reading some reactions to articles in the onion08:07
SuperMattpopey: one thing to note: the passwords might not be *stored* in plain text, but the fact that a minimum wage service rep can get them is *extremely* worrying08:07
neuroSuperMatt: what's not clear is *what* password he's talking about08:08
SuperMattI would imagine it's either the accoun08:08
neuroif it's his access password to identify him over the phone to customer services, that's just bad practice08:08
SuperMattoops08:08
SuperMattfor phone stuff they usually use something like mother's maiden name08:09
neuroif it's his account password to their online servicing, then there's a serious problem08:09
SuperMattbut I imagine he probably has an "account" password, connected to his email address08:09
neurowell, it's unclear :)08:09
SuperMattsure08:09
* neuro has just purchased his album for the month08:10
neuroOblivion soundtrack08:10
MooDoojust watched that the other night08:10
neurocrackin', innit08:10
MooDooyeah enjoyeed it08:11
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neuroi've been saying this elsewhere, really liking Joseph Kosinski's stuff08:12
TheOpenSourcerercan I have the day off? Feel like going back to bed...08:12
MooDooTheOpenSourcerer: get in the queue08:12
neurowill be interesting to see what he does after the tron legacy sequel08:12
MooDooTheOpenSourcerer: in fact can i work for you so you can send me home?08:12
TheOpenSourcererOnly if I can work for you too08:13
MooDoodeal, feel free to go home :d08:13
TheOpenSourcerermutual employment08:13
TheOpenSourcererMooDoo: Unfortunately I am already at home. Just not in bed.08:13
MooDooTheOpenSourcerer: ah home/office?08:14
TheOpenSourcereryes08:14
MooDoothought you had business premisis now?08:14
TheOpenSourcererI had rather a "big" weekend.08:14
MooDoonuff said08:14
TheOpenSourcererOooh - that just cheered me up - checked company bank account. Customers paying chunky invoices in 2 days :-D08:16
* TheOpenSourcerer feels a divi coming on shortly.08:17
MooDooyay08:17
neuroTAX EVASION ALERT!08:17
directhexi got a tax refund this year :o08:17
TheOpenSourcererNothing wrong woth divis08:17
neurosure :)08:17
brobostigongood morning everyone.08:18
MooDooTheOpenSourcerer: you should have a community beer fund for people that help you with stuff ;)08:18
neurojust make sure you never complain about corporates using tax loopholes :)08:18
MooDooyou owe me a beer for the helpful advice I just gave you lol08:18
MooDoohmmm still too early?08:18
ali1234whats a divi?08:19
neurodividend08:20
ali1234oh, i see08:20
MooDooA dividend is a payment a company can make to shareholders if it has made enough profit.08:20
neuroit's a way for contractors to save tax obligations08:20
ali1234i know what a dividend is :)08:20
neuropay yourself a minimum wage, then get the rest of your profits from dividends08:20
neurodoing stuff like that is why tax regulations like IR35 were brought in08:22
ali1234where can i buy a leap motion except for amazon?08:25
popeyyou want to pay in loldollars?08:25
ali1234if possible, but mainly i just don't like amazon08:25
popeydirect?08:26
popeyhttps://store.leapmotion.com08:26
ali1234ah thank you08:26
neurololdollars!08:26
popeynp08:26
popeyjono calls bitcoins "linden dollars"08:26
popeyiirc08:27
ali1234that's just confusing08:28
ali1234people will think he actually means linden dollars08:28
ali1234bitcoin actually increased the value of lindens because they were one of the easiest intermediate ways to buy in08:30
neuroremind me to slap jono next time i see him08:30
SuperMattaren't linden dollars from secondlife?08:30
ali1234yes08:30
neuroyup08:30
mungbeanis that still going?08:36
MooDooyeah08:36
neurohttp://secondlife.com/08:36
MooDooI also used to play Entropia Universe08:37
popeyI think I probably "played" second life for about an hour in total08:39
popeyi dont quite get it08:39
neuroit's pretty easy to get08:39
mungbeanits for people who don't like leaving the house?08:39
neurothink of it as visual irc with 3d building component08:39
neuromungbean: why say that?08:39
mungbeanirc is something i do while doing other things though08:40
popeyit's very much like minecraft08:40
popeyor vice versa08:40
neuros/irc/chat/ then08:40
neuroyeah08:40
neurowouldn't surprise me if second life informed minecraft to a certain extent08:41
neuroif you can grok minecraft, you can certainly grok second life08:41
mungbeando you still play minecraft?08:42
directhexthere's no direct line from SL to minecraft08:42
directhexminecraft is largely a clone of a game called infiniminer08:42
neuro*sigh* :)08:43
neuroi didn't say that08:43
mungbeani've heard people say they don't play MC anymore cos it got dull, said notch runied it or somethig08:44
ali1234on the contrary, second life is much more difficult to understand than minecraft08:49
ali1234mainly because the modelling controls are so utterly awful08:49
ali1234the second life economy is based around the idea of paying someone else to use it for you08:49
MooDooI love MC :D08:49
popeymungbean: yes, i still play it08:58
popeymy kids play it quite a bit too08:58
MooDooI've got a couple of servers running which makes it a bit more fun, popey do you still have the ubuntu uk one running?09:00
mungbeanwhat's a reasonable time to wait for a quote for a new fence?09:04
mungbean1 week? 2 weeks?09:05
MooDooquote?  few days i'd say lol09:05
mungbeanyeah :(09:05
popeyMooDoo: i run one at home, it's not really ubuntu-uk one09:06
JamesTaitGood morning all, happy Tiger Day! :-D09:07
MooDoopopey: ah i was just looking for the map :)09:07
popeythere isn't one09:08
mungbeanwatched life of pi over the weekend. bought it in march but only just had time to watch it with missis09:09
mungbeananyone enjoy it?09:09
DJonesIn a way, I think its better to play MC without a map, you have to remember where everything is & find things by accident rather than looking at a map and going straight to a village09:10
MooDoocan't say it interests me09:11
popeyyeah, DJones09:12
popeythe kids spent some time today playing with horses09:12
mungbeanIRL ?09:12
DJonesHorses are fun in MC09:13
mungbeanthey must smell less09:13
popeyin minecraft09:13
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mungbeani wonder if MC has helped sales of lego09:15
mungbeanalthough lego don't need the help09:15
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MooDoohttps://jeena.net/images/2012/PHP-The-Good-Parts.pdf09:27
MooDoomonday funny09:27
MartijnVdSMooDoo: morning :)09:27
MooDoomorning MartijnVdS how are you?09:28
MartijnVdSbored at work ;)09:33
MooDooMartijnVdS: what you do again?09:34
neurohe sticks needles into squirrels to turn them into hedgehogs09:34
MartijnVdSMooDoo: I write perl code (CMS/backend stuff for a big ISP)09:34
MooDoonice job, can see why yuor bored09:34
MooDooMartijnVdS: which one <nosey mode off>09:35
MartijnVdSMooDoo: xs4all09:35
MartijnVdS.nl09:35
MooDooname rings a bell for some reason09:35
MartijnVdSMooDoo: they started in the early 90s as a "hacker"-type ISP09:35
mungbeanloads of people on holiday this week, let's see how the documentation holds up. already had a server crash at 9am09:35
mungbeanMartijnVdS: cameron would seek to ban those in UK :P09:36
mgdmmungbean: are you aware of the Netflix Chaos Monkey?09:36
MooDoomungbean: did you try turnng it on and off again ;)09:36
MartijnVdSmungbean: good thing we don't have cameron (and we *do* have a law that explicitly forbids filtering ;))09:36
mungbeanMooDoo: yes, it worked. however i spent 1hr finding the correct password for the drac/ipmi rather than the incorrect one in the docs09:36
mungbeancameron would ban reddit i think, and probably google09:37
mungbeanmgdm: nope09:37
MooDoomungbean: you need a documentation monkey to go update them all09:37
mungbeani do good docs, unfortuantely i don't manage all those people09:37
mgdmmungbean: Netflix have a daemon that randomly goes and kills servers, to ensure they have fallbacks - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-chaos-monkey.html09:38
mungbeannice, i think ?09:38
MartijnVdSI write great docs. Too bad our sysadmins don't read them ("How do I install this?" "perldoc X" "But how do I install it?" "perldoc X, then search for "INSTALLING" "You're not helping.")09:38
mgdmmungbean: I saw someone advocate an HR equivalent, the other day, where you send people on holiday randomly to see that the documentation they left behind is good enough09:38
MartijnVdSmgdm: that sounds like an excellent idea!09:39
* mungbean just realise my shoes smell :( need new trainers09:39
MartijnVdSmgdm: did they have a name for it?09:39
neuroodor eaters!09:39
mungbeanprobably the name of my colleague09:39
mungbeanevery time he goes away, there is catastrophe09:40
mgdmMartijnVdS: 'HR Monkey'? :)09:40
mungbeando odour eaters work, or just mask the smell?09:40
mungbeanand do they sell it in the 99p shop09:40
diddledanodour eaters work until they start stinking themselves :-p09:40
neurodunno about pountd09:40
neuroerk09:40
MartijnVdSmgdm: but that would overload the existing term :P09:40
mungbeanis odour eaters a spray??09:41
neurodunno about the pound shop, but you'll get em in boots etc09:41
mungbeanor an insert09:41
mgdmMartijnVdS: ;-)09:41
neuroboth09:41
neurohttp://www.boots.com/en/Boots-Brands-A-to-Z/Odor-Eaters09:41
mungbeani think its cos i went from 2 trainers to one pair09:41
mungbeanso the 1 pair got used all the time09:41
mungbeani can buy new trainers for £16 :S09:42
neurodo you wear your trainers all day?09:42
mungbeanyes, although just took them off to cool my feet down09:42
neuroi only wear shoes when i'm outside09:42
mungbeani'm at work09:42
neuroslippers for kicking about the house09:42
neuroand i take them off when i'm sitting in the lounge watching teh telly etc09:42
mungbeani have work trainers though09:43
neuroyes, yes, i am an Old Man09:43
mungbeani have slippers for home09:43
neuroso, not all day then :)09:43
mungbeanmy fet get quite hot09:43
neurosounds like you need shoes that let your feet breath09:43
mungbeanCollect your order from store for free when you spend over £2009:43
mungbean^^ boots = rip off09:43
mungbeanmight check local chemist09:44
neuroyup, they'll do them too09:44
mungbeansmell = bacteria09:44
mungbeanso my feet are prob not good09:44
MartijnVdSwash your feet?09:44
mungbeanyes i do :P09:45
mungbeanwill wander down to sports direct at lunch09:46
neurobest trainers i ever owned were Converse EV Pro 2K509:46
mungbeanhow did we get from chaos monkey to feet..09:46
neurothey don't make em any more :(09:46
neuromungbean: you're the one who brought up your smelly feet09:46
* mgdm has new Converses, the boot kind that I've not had before, which I discovered while 'tired' on Saturday morning fit almost as well on the wrong feet as they do on the right ones09:47
mgdm:(09:48
neuronice09:48
neuroi don't do hi tops09:48
MartijnVdSmgdm: that's easier for the factory kids09:48
MartijnVdSmgdm: they only have to make one kind of show09:48
MartijnVdSshoe09:48
mungbeanhad a discussion with my 3yr old about socks. he reckons there are left socks and right socks09:48
mgdmI was walking to the shop and wondered if my feet geniunely did splay out at 60 degrees09:48
mgdmbecause that was a new thing09:48
MartijnVdSmungbean: there are, go to a sports/hiking store09:48
neuromgdm: lol09:49
MartijnVdSmungbean: (running/hiking socks are "sided", because they're shaped and have fewer seams)09:49
bigcalmGood morning peeps :)09:49
mgdm'lo bigcalm09:50
shaunothat'd drive me nuts.  I love being able to just buy a whole bucket of identical socks09:50
Azelphurwell, that was eventful09:50
AzelphurI just had my phone line disconnected for ~5 minutes09:50
mgdm'200 for a pound-A!'09:50
mungbeanmy wife boguht a load of black fresh feet socks for herself09:50
mungbeanthey got mixed up with my batch09:51
* popey hugs his nabee socks09:51
Azelphurhappened before like a month ago, BT engineer told me if it happened again, sprint outside to the cabinet and see if there's an engineer messing about09:51
Azelphursure enough, located said BT engineer, seems that somebody is issuing disconnect orders for my line09:51
mungbeangot her to sew a little thing on the corner of her socks, but i occasionally get a tiny sock and am never quite sure09:51
mungbeantainted sock collection09:51
Azelphurright phone number, wrong flat number, probably why09:51
MartijnVdSAzelphur: just pay your bills :P09:51
AzelphurMartijnVdS: haha, I am paying :<09:51
Azelphurgonna phone up talktalk and tell them to stop doing that. xD09:52
neurofunny, my boss has been having the exact same probs with talktalk09:53
mgdmOh, TalkTalk, eh09:53
MartijnVdSneuro: twist: Azelphur IS your boss09:53
mgdm(I used to work in their call centre in Lewis, before it was owned by TalkTalk)09:53
mgdm(that was ~13 years ago though)09:53
neurothing is, it's still Openreach at the cab09:54
neuros/still Openreach/an Openreach engineer/09:54
neurowhich usually isn't too bad IME09:54
neurobut worst case scenario you get a Kelly Communications engineer-o-drone09:54
neuroutter muppet from what i hear09:54
neuros/muppet/muppets/09:54
mungbeanthere's a green tele box on cambridge heath rd that is used by tramps and druggies and is open to the elements all the time. i've seen vomit on the boards in there too09:55
mgdmniiiiiice09:55
mungbeansurprised anything works09:55
mungbeandoor always open09:55
Azelphurhaha09:55
neurothat's why the vdsl ones are bigger, faster, stronger09:55
neurosince it's not just krone blocks, it's DSLAMs as well09:56
Azelphurneuro: yea, he had my phone number but a different flat number09:56
Azelphurso clearly something is up09:56
mgdmSurely you mean harder, better, faster, stronger09:56
neurowork it, make it do it makes us09:57
mungbeanhmmm10:02
mungbeanps -ef | grep chrome | wc -l10:02
mungbean1610:02
mungbeanthis does not help my memory usage. i closed chrome10:02
mungbeanstill 16 processes running10:02
mgdmkill 'em all10:03
mungbeanfreed ~1gb10:03
mungbeankeeps happening though10:04
mungbeanand forcing tb and ff to swap out10:04
neurowimp10:09
neuromelbourne:~ neuro$ ps ax | grep -i chrome | grep -vc grep10:09
neuro8410:09
mungbeanchrome is being used though, right?10:09
neurowell yeah ;)10:09
mungbeanmy issue is mistakenly thinking it is shut down10:10
mungbeanvery windows-esque10:10
mungbeanwhat's yandex? a search engine?10:13
davmor2Morning all10:13
mgdmmungbean: I believe so, 'Big in Russia'10:13
mungbeanmore hits from yandex than bing on my blog10:14
MooDooblimey nearly 7 years in my current job :S10:14
mungbeansomebody searched for "police microsoft centos"10:14
popeyyes, russian one10:15
popeyin the news recently because the founder died10:16
mungbeanYandex is one of Russia's biggest internet companies - valued at £6.5bn ($10bn) and has more than double Google's market share in the country.10:17
neuroi hate waiting for parcels10:19
neuroYODEL! *shakes fist*10:19
mungbeanso don't10:19
neurowut10:19
mungbeandon't wait10:19
neuroum10:19
neuroi have to?10:19
mungbeanyou make it sound like an active activity10:20
mungbeanmake it a passive one10:20
neuroit pretty much is10:20
mungbeando other thing :P10:20
neuroi am, but the things i can do are restricted10:20
mungbeanmake a jigsaw puzzle10:20
neurowhy would i make a jigsaw puzzle?10:20
mungbean:)10:20
neuroi'm pretty sure i don't get paid to make jigsaw puzzles10:20
mungbeanit encourages thought process10:21
* mgdm bought "Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python" for his gf last night10:21
neurodoesn't really contribute to productivity though, does it?10:21
mungbeani would definitely do it if i had my own office still10:21
mungbeanlong term it does10:21
neurook,10:21
mungbeanwork smarter not harder ;)10:21
neuroa) i HATE jigsaw puzzles10:21
mungbeanjust don't tell people , they might not believe you10:22
neurob) it wouldn't help me upgrade our web stats system10:22
MooDoomungbean: palm off all your work to a indian programmer10:22
MooDoodidn't some american do that?10:22
neuroc) it wouldn't help me migrate my mates' linux box10:22
directhexwork it10:22
directhexmake it10:22
directhexdo it10:22
directhexmakes us10:22
neurod) it wouldn't help me install my new nas, which is in the back of a Yodel monkey's van10:22
neuroe) did I mention that I hate jigsaw puzzles?10:22
mungbeansounds like you aren't waiting for b and c10:22
neurooh, and f) I HATE JIGSAW PUZZLES10:23
MooDooneuro: which nas did you go for?10:23
neurods213j10:23
neurowith a couple of 2tb reds10:23
MooDoonice10:23
popeyi usually do a jigsaw or two on holiday10:23
neuroand a 500gb wd black for my esxi server10:23
popeygreat way to relax10:23
neurojigsaw puzzles don't make me relax, unfortunately10:23
neurotoo fiddly10:23
directhexany bright ideas on where to buy a rack, cheap?10:24
MooDooi'm going for the next one up the ds41310:24
neuroi thought about the 413 but i don't need the storage10:24
MooDoocool :)10:24
mungbeandirecthex: i've given some away in the past10:24
neurodon't need that much capacity, i mean10:24
MooDooyeah I got you10:24
mungbeancontact friends and universities for sapre ones10:24
directhexmungbean, that's the annoyance - racks are free or £££££ but nowhere in between really10:24
neuro2TiB more than enough for my esxi hosts10:24
mungbeanpopey: i take jigsaws on holiday too10:24
mungbeanand airfix models of course10:25
MooDooneuro: you have a proper dedi then using the nas as the storage device?10:25
mungbeanbecause england always rains10:25
neuroMooDoo: i have a crappy zoostorm dual pentium thing with three intel NICs onboard10:25
mungbeanand a nice piece of battenberg cake with hot chocolate and jigsaw rocks10:25
neurothe 1TB that shipped with it is failing10:25
neurofunnily enough, the RAM that shipped with it failed as well, luckily i was already going to replace it with 16GB of crucial goodness10:26
MooDooneuro: ah cool :D  i need a new machine as mine is 32bit so can only run a 3.5 esxi :(10:26
neuronever buying a zoostorm again10:26
neuromy other esxi box is a pentium D, runs 4.x sweet10:26
neurotho i'm decommissioning that one, an old dell dimension 515010:26
MooDoomines running fine, just want to play with v5 :D10:26
neuropower10:26
neurousing less leccy = win10:26
neuroyeah, my newer one runs 5, gonna upgrade to 5.110:27
MooDoonice :)10:27
neurowhich reminds me, i need to charge up dell laptop to manage the bloomin' things10:28
MooDooneuro: windows client ?10:28
neurovsphere client10:28
MooDooyeah tht's what i meant, pain that isn't it.10:28
neuroyup10:28
neuroi only keep PCs around for vsphere and games :)10:28
neuromy dell xps whatever it is has been in sleep mode for weeks10:29
MooDooi dual boot the laptop win7 / ubuntu10:29
neuroin fact i forget what it is10:29
neuroah xps 850010:29
neuroi can't do dual boot10:29
neuroinvariably what you want is on the other OS10:29
neurowhich is why i prefer separate machines or virtualisation10:30
mungbeani have a dual boot laptop runnign synergy for any vsphereOS needs10:31
neuro"Parcel out for delivery" ... i want to listen to music, dammit!10:32
SuperMattstick a microphone next to the doorbell hoohah. Then write a program which kills the music/mutes the sound when the doorbell goes10:34
neuroi don't have a doorbell10:34
SuperMattalthough I'm sure you could probably use an arduino or ... oh10:34
mungbeanmagnetic switch on the knocker10:34
neurothe "knocker" is a letterbo10:34
neurox10:34
mungbeanhas a knocker though?10:34
neuroit's a letterbox10:35
mungbeanthe letterbox could have a little switch on it10:35
SuperMattcould you do something where you create a circuit, and when it's broken by the opening of the letter box, it does something?10:35
mungbeanwhen the circuiot breaks...10:35
neuroi don't like the idea of putting electricity anywhere near my door :)10:35
mungbeani have a doggy10:35
neuroha10:35
mungbeanbarks like crazy10:35
neuronever thought of that10:36
SuperMattbut it'd be a really small current10:36
SuperMattuse a makey makey10:36
SuperMattoh10:36
MartijnVdSI'd use a huge current. Make sure you catch the delivery guy10:36
neurotho i get enough barking from the dogs on either side10:36
neuroMartijnVdS: for yodel, might be a good idea10:36
neuronext time i order from ebuyer, i'll make sure to put in the notes to call me when they're at the door10:37
neuroi really should put my webcam back on the office window to look right at the front door10:37
mgdms/webcam/sentry gun/10:38
mungbeanor install a doorbell10:38
neurodoorbells suck10:38
neurojust another thing i need to change the batteries in10:38
MartijnVdSbatteries?10:38
neuroor another thing i have to run an extension lead to10:38
mungbeanthey have a good feature though10:38
neurowhat, of annoying me?10:39
mungbeanas they can be wired/wirelessly ring in different parts of the house10:39
neuroi just want a big pneumatic tube that stuff can appear from10:39
neurooh good, someone's phoning my landline10:39
neurolet's see if they leave a message10:40
neuronope10:40
mungbeanprboavbly delivery man10:41
neurodoubt it, since ebuyer don't have my landline number10:41
neuroeither of them10:41
MooDooanyone on virgin? - https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/36175397573899059210:41
mungbeanthose "character building dr who" figures were in stock for minutes, and now out of stock again :(10:47
MartijnVdSmungbean: they're popular..10:48
MartijnVdSmungbean: I bought the anniversary edition Dr Who Monopoly10:49
neurodr who ... pfff10:50
MartijnVdSneuro: it's fun!10:51
neuroi've gone off it, unfortunately10:51
neuroi still watch it, but it's just not as enjoyable as Old Who10:51
neuroimho10:51
mungbeanof course10:51
mungbeanand i can never watch them twice10:51
mungbeanthey go stale so quickly10:52
neurothe odd episode is absolutely genius, and they're a joy to watch10:52
neurothe odd episode is utter crud, and you wonder how it got past the quality control10:52
neurothe rest is just ... meh10:52
mungbeani think its been built up as something special though10:52
neurowell it sort of is10:52
mungbeanin the 70s and 80s they weren't exactly epic10:52
neurothere's all that heritage10:53
mungbeana lot were quite humdrum and slow moving10:53
mungbeanand naff of course10:53
neuroit's one of the few shows that's remained relatively true to itself10:53
neurowell yeah10:53
neuro:)10:53
neurojon pertwee got hobbled by all the "oh lets stay on earth" stuff10:53
mungbeanexcept dr who was supposed to be professiorial old man rather than pseudo messiah10:54
neuroyeah10:54
mungbeanwith fit assistants10:54
neurogrumpy old man10:54
mungbeanactualyl he always had fit assistants10:54
neuropretty much10:54
neurommm, teagan10:54
mungbean:-|10:54
mungbeanu sure?10:54
neuro?10:54
neurocourse!10:54
neuroand romana II10:55
mungbeanamy pond and clara are prob among the most attractive women on telly10:56
mungbeanthey can sure pick them10:56
neuromost of my telly is from the US, they can pick em too10:57
mungbeannot really my type10:57
neuromonday lunchtime = watching last night's newsroom10:57
neuroemily mortimer + olivia munn10:57
neuroamericans aren't really your type?10:57
neuroalso i have a man crush on jeff daniels10:58
mungbeanwhat are often considered good looking american women i rarely find attractive,10:58
mungbeantoo fake10:58
neurodepends on what you watch, i guess10:59
neurotime for the newsroom \o/11:00
popeywheee rain11:04
MooDoohere we go again, hope it doesn't flood11:05
popeyhah, stopped again11:06
popeyit's really stop/start today11:07
mungbeanweird, chrome fails to exit cleanly every time11:07
popeyas does spotify here11:07
popeycrashes every time i close it11:08
mungbeanstays running i mean11:08
brobostigonif memory serves, chrome does have a function to keep running in background, even when the main window is closed.11:09
mungbeani also discovered that tweetdeck on android is now dead11:09
mungbeani last checked twitter on 19th july.11:09
Myrttibrobostigon: yeah and it's on by default11:09
brobostigonMyrtti: yep.11:09
mungbeanbrobostigon: found it, ta11:10
brobostigonmungbean: :)11:10
mungbeannaughty11:10
Myrttiit has some valid usecases11:10
Myrttibut not many11:11
brobostigonlike in chromium-os11:11
Myrttilike offline gmail etc.11:11
selinuxiumAfternoon all   o/11:56
selinuxiumGot a fairly upset machine... ran out of space on /boot...11:56
selinuxiumcleared it down but now having dependancy issues..11:56
selinuxiumThe following packages have unmet dependencies.11:57
selinuxium linux-image-server : Depends: linux-image-3.2.0-45-generic but it is not installed11:57
selinuxium linux-server : Depends: linux-headers-server (= 3.2.0.45.54) but 3.2.0.51.61 is installed11:57
selinuxiumtried sudo apt-get install -f  and not helping..11:58
selinuxiumAny ideas?11:58
MooDooselinuxium: http://askubuntu.com/questions/252777/how-can-i-resolve-dpkg-dependency12:01
MooDoothat help?12:01
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selinuxiumMooDoo, did you get my reply? I may of had a bounce whilst replying..12:07
MooDooselinuxium: no i didn't, i can see the bounce but no reply12:08
selinuxiumAh, Ok... Anyway, cheers. that helped... One thing I was missing was to remove linux-server whilst tidying up. all tidy now and linux-server reinstalled. update/upgrade in progress.12:09
selinuxium:)12:09
MooDoofab :)12:10
selinuxiumTBH the removal of linux-server was a bit worrying... Glad the writer of the post was clear about it.12:11
MooDoogoogle is your friend ;)12:11
neuro"@YodelOnline is now following you!"12:13
neuronever mind that twitter guff, yodel, where's my effing parcel!?12:13
MooDoolol12:13
MartijnVdSneuro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67rc96joOz812:13
MooDoono online tracking?12:13
neuro09:27 Parcel out for delivery12:14
MooDooyou'll get it at 6 or you'll hear the door go and see a note saying noone was in to collect parcel, that happened to me12:16
neurohehe, popey must have had interactions with Yodel in the past, he's following them :)12:16
mungbeanis there a subreddit for sound engineers?12:16
neuroMooDoo: didn't even get a note through the door on saturday12:16
neuroif i had no internet, i wouldn't have known12:16
MartijnVdSneuro: so now you're going to interrogate him?12:16
neuropretty much12:16
neuroi have the My First Amateur Waterboarding Kit handy12:16
diddledanisn't amature waterboarding the equivalent to actually drowning the victim?12:17
selinuxiumMooDoo, I had several Googles... none came up with the remove server bit..12:18
mungbeanor maybe just unpaid12:18
Azelphurali1234: BFL have just mailed me to inform me that they are shipping orders on my pay date :o12:18
MooDooselinuxium: stupid computers ;)12:18
neurothe interesting thing about yodel asking me on twitter what happened, is that at no time did I @ them.  They must search twitter for mentions of Yodel12:20
neurowhich must mean they see more yodelling pics and videos than anyone else on the planet12:20
neuroother than yodellers themselves12:20
neurodiddledan: nah, just means i don't have professional spec gear12:20
popeyneuro: yes, they neglected to deliver some tomato juice I ordered from amazon12:21
neuroempty milk carton and a washing up tub12:21
popeycontacted them and they said "yeah, it was spoiled" - i.e. they dropped it12:21
neuropopey: nice12:21
neurolol12:21
popeythey never told me this, so I had to nag them to find this out12:21
neuroif they drop my NAS and disks, i shall go nuclear on them12:21
popeyheh12:21
neuroif ebuyer are going to make a habit of using yodel, i will probably have to stop using them12:21
neurowhich is a shame12:22
neuroi'd happily pay an extra few quid to get stuff delivered from them via fedex, ups, dhl, parcelforce ...12:22
MartijnVdSneuro: but wait.. you can pay for other shipping, only £1012:22
neuro?12:22
MartijnVdSneuro: oh some stores here allow you to choose how they ship it12:23
mungbeantop tip: i should ash up my mugs at work after using rather than 3 days later12:23
neuroi can choose how quickly stuff can be shipped to me12:23
mungbean^ash^wash12:23
selinuxium'lo popey...12:23
MartijnVdSneuro: but most are €10 or more more expensive12:23
neuroand that's it12:23
selinuxiumI am so tempted to buy an Edge...12:23
neurodo it12:23
neuroor, you know, don't12:23
neuroand remember, you're not "buying" an Edge, you're pledging to the campaign to build them12:23
mungbeanat what price though selinuxium12:24
selinuxiumAny news from Canonical about whether UK customers are going to get hit with import tax?12:24
neuroimport tax?12:24
selinuxiumDouble Edge I think...12:24
Azelphurselinuxium: I very much doubt it, the indiegogo says that it's free shipping inside UK or US, indicating that they are distributing from both locations.12:24
neuroand i think the VAT issue was settled, no?12:24
AzelphurUK to UK shipping isn't hit by import tax obviously12:24
mungbeanthe reality is that unless they ofer more phones below700, it wont make it12:25
Azelphurit's an assumption, but the likely scenario12:25
neurothe current funding level has dipped below the straight line goal rate12:25
neuro7.05m as of 13:00, should be at least 7.35m12:25
mungbeanyes,12:25
mungbeanflatlined due to price sweet spot breached12:26
popey12:26
selinuxiumCould do with some big investors getting in on the $10,000 packs..12:27
neurobah, every time i hear footsteps outside, my ears perk up12:27
selinuxiumI really could do with this going off.12:27
mungbeanneuro: have you done anything while waiting?12:27
neuro"investors" is the wrong term, surely12:27
neuromungbean: of course, i've been working, and watching The Newsroom12:27
selinuxiumneuro: Why is that?12:28
neuroselinuxium: investors expect a return on their investment12:28
neuroif the campaign earns $32m, they get a phone12:28
neuroif the campaign earns $132m, they get a phone12:28
MartijnVdSif the campaign earnts $31999999, nobody gets a phone12:28
neuroif the campaign succeeds, no more ubuntu edges will be made12:29
MartijnVdSearns12:29
selinuxiumneuro: I invest in technology all the time, it doesn't mean I expect rewards based on sales?12:29
ormiretCould count as investment if you back for a bunch of phones with the intention of putting them on ebay.12:29
neurolol12:29
mungbean    Expend money with the expectation of achieving a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or...: "getting workers to invest in private pension funds"; "the company is to invest $12 million in its new manufacturing site"12:29
mungbean    Devote (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result.12:29
neuromungbean: my point is that (re waiting for delivery) is that i'm constantly distracted when i hear noises outside, thinking it's yodel monkey with my parcel12:32
neuroand i have to not listen to music constantly because i may not hear the door12:33
mungbeancoulda solved that with jigsaw ;)12:33
neuroor at least not at my normal listening levels12:33
neuroi'd have thrown the jigsaw out of the window by now12:33
neurotold you, i hate em :)12:33
mungbeaneven a haribo one?12:33
mungbeanor star wars?12:33
neuroI. Hate. Jigsaws.12:34
mungbeani made one on my honeymoon \o/12:34
neuroalso, need to be super vigilant with this crowd, because they have a tendency to just rock up to your door, sans parcel, knock, immediately stick card through door, then bugger off12:34
mungbeanput nails on the parking space outside12:35
mungbeanno quick getaway12:35
neurothere are a lot of parking spaces outside12:35
neuroi don't live on a traditional straight street with houses on either side of a road12:35
neuroso i don't have a drive12:35
mungbeanif you can't cure your OCD you have to pay more for timed delivery slots ;)12:36
MartijnVdSneuro: you live on a 30-acre estate with a 3 mile winding driveway?12:36
popeyI read The Code Book on my honeymoon12:36
neuroi don't have OCD12:36
neuroand ebuyer don't offer timed delivery slots12:36
popey*CDO12:36
mungbeanpopey: where did you honeymoon?12:36
popeyMaldives12:36
MartijnVdSpopey: \o/ CDO, with letters in the correct order ;)12:36
mungbeanah nice.12:36
popeyit was, very12:36
mungbeani would like to so sometime, but sans kids12:36
popeyI would love to go back again12:37
mungbeani was in a stone cottage on bodmin moor , windswept in november, wood burner stove and hot choc and marshmallows. we toook a dvd player and  bought the star wars ep III dvd as it had just come out12:38
neurosod it12:38
neurodon't care12:38
mungbeanwe did not plan on going out much12:38
neurobox is here12:38
MartijnVdSneuro: delivery guy is a whimpering mess?12:38
mungbeanneuro is aptly named12:38
neuroMartijnVdS: no, i signed for it and let him go, because it's chucking it down with rain outside12:39
neuroi'm a git, but i'm not that much of a git12:39
neuromungbean: _neuro_mancer12:40
mungbeannot neuro tic?12:40
neuroneuromancer was too long for 8 char login names12:40
neuroand neuroman sounded crap12:40
MartijnVdSneuroman would work12:40
MartijnVdSit sounds like a superhero12:40
mungbeanand his sister neurosis12:41
popeymungbean: we had a wedding anniversary in a farmhouse with wood burning stove in Cornwall once.. very nice. No TV IIRC.12:45
MartijnVdSCornwall++12:45
mungbeanyeah, i try to go to devon or cornwall ever couple of years12:46
mungbeangoing to a windsept cottage on portland this year12:46
mungbeanno such thing as bad weather, only wrong clothing12:46
popeySt Buryan was where we went12:47
MartijnVdSpopey: hey, I think I may have passed that place on the way back :)12:47
mungbeanoh that's near some lovely beaches, some of the best I've ever seen12:47
MartijnVdSI can (and will ;)) recommend The Old Success Inn (Sennen Cove)12:48
mungbeani go near st breward on bodmin12:48
popeyhttp://www.lamorna.biz/ found it12:48
popeythat was the farm12:48
popeywe walked down to Lamorna cove so it must be that one12:48
MartijnVdSmungbean: https://plus.google.com/photos/100189567362844794281/albums/5877491002319853233/5878153298996490994?pid=5878153298996490994&oid=10018956736284479428112:49
popeylovely part of the world12:50
mungbeanwanted to go back to where i stayed on my wedding night...now boarded up :( http://img01.beerintheevening.com/53/53725b52131bf5a93191d8931a0ad13d.jpg12:51
popey12:52
mungbeanMartijnVdS: did you pay to go into stonehenge or peek over the fence12:53
Azelphurhttp://allthingsbitcoin.org/2013/07/29/bitcoin-mining-unit-sells-on-ebay-for-us10866-88/12:54
Azelphurblimey, I have 3 of those12:54
selinuxium_Meh.. Keep getting booted... :/12:54
selinuxium_Worrying as on the work network..12:55
MartijnVdSmungbean: paid, but got the "overseas visitor pass", which gets you into all English Heritage locations12:55
MartijnVdSmungbean: (if you go to >3 in a week, it's cheaper than paying for entry everywhere)12:56
mungbeanhow close can you go to the stones?12:58
MartijnVdSmungbean: not very12:58
MartijnVdSmungbean: you can buy a "between the stones" tour, but they're hard to get tickets for12:59
SuperMattomg13:04
SuperMattthe pope13:04
SuperMattactually doing the right thing13:04
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: popey?13:04
SuperMattwell, yeah, we know he's infallable13:04
SuperMattbut I'm talking about the other one13:04
MartijnVdSwhat did he do then?13:04
SuperMatt"Pope Francis: Who am I to judge gay people?"13:04
SuperMatthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-2348970213:04
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: ah, so he's out of the closet?13:05
popeyhah13:07
mungbean" that homosexual acts were sinful, but homosexual orientation was not."13:08
mungbeanthats been their policy forver13:08
mungbeanjournalists are funny13:08
mungbeanpresenting something as a news story13:08
mungbeanwhen its not13:08
SuperMattIt's still big13:09
SuperMattit means that a lot of people will have to refrain from all their judging13:09
mungbeanchristians are never meant to judge non-christians anyway13:10
SuperMattno, they're not13:10
SuperMattbut they do because they haven't had anyone telling them not to13:11
mungbeanbut there is behaviour that they disagree with as unrighteous, which makes people feel condemned13:11
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: gee, why would THAT be13:11
mungbeanif i said that i don't drink tea because i believe it is sinful, then after a while you would feel judged by me13:11
mungbeanwhethe i am judging you or not13:11
mungbeancan i update nfs package without having to unmount all my mounts?13:14
MartijnVdSUnknown13:14
SuperMattI'm genuinely mostly excited because I wanna see the reaction of the christian americans13:14
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: Christian Americans aren't catholic usually13:15
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: but one of several weird sects of protestantism13:15
SuperMattsure, but the reaction is going to be amazing either way :D13:15
* SuperMatt gets some pop-corn13:15
mungbeanno it won't13:15
mungbeanthe article doesn't mean anything13:15
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: they're very good at ignoring things they can't "process"13:16
SuperMattMartijnVdS: oh indeed, which is why I think it'll be interesting to watch13:17
SuperMattI want to see how they try to justify that they should ignore this13:18
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: If you like watching grass grow, or paint dry, or similar ;)13:18
mungbeanamerican christians would say the same as me13:18
mungbeanas what i said up there13:18
MartijnVdSmungbean: "meh"?13:18
mungbeanalso american christians don't require celibacy for clergy, which is the cause of all sorts of problems13:19
MooDooyeah take it to #christian ;)13:20
MartijnVdSmungbean: neither do the English, right?13:21
mungbeancorrect13:21
mungbeanit is an unbiblical concept to require it anyway13:21
mungbeanbut that never stopped the catholics13:21
popeyfirst one to give me a giffgaff nick gets the referal13:22
popeyexpected faster response than that13:22
MartijnVdSpopey: everybody is looking it up ;)13:23
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popeyheh13:23
popeyi should ask on twitter, get a zillion replies than13:24
popey*then13:24
mungbeanhttp://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/oimon13:25
mungbeanpopey: ^13:25
SuperMattpopey: deusmetallum13:25
mungbeanyou snooze you lose SuperMatt13:26
SuperMattbutts13:26
MartijnVdSSuperMatt: God of metal? Really? :)13:26
SuperMattyup13:26
SuperMattit's a username I can guarantee will not be used on any website *except* ones I've signed up to13:26
neurowheeee blinky lights13:27
popeytoo late ☻13:27
mungbeanyou tease13:27
popeyasked in another channel and got an instant response13:27
* neuro rushes off to register 'deusmetallum' on every website he can find13:29
mungbeancan i restart nfs service if i've got mounts open? what happens?13:29
neuroBad.13:29
neuroBad things.13:30
neuroThe dead will rise from the grave.13:30
neuroThe moon will shift from its orbit.13:30
neuroThe seas will turn to blood.13:30
neuroand your mounts will probably get upset for a second or to, then reattach13:30
neuros/to/two/13:30
mungbeanphew, just noticed my goodybag was set to *not* recur13:41
mungbeanoh kde, why thee so ugly? http://blogs.kde.org/2013/07/29/kde-plasma-desktop-411s-new-task-manager13:48
popey\o/ got PAC code from orange13:49
popeyapparently i have been a customer or orange since 21/09/199513:49
SuperMattmungbean: I agree13:49
SuperMattI've always avoided KDE because I've felt like it actually *wants* me to be sick13:50
mungbeankde3.x seemed ok to me, and gnoem at the time was ugly and fuzzy and big icons etc13:50
neuropopey: blimeh13:51
SuperMattTo me, there always seems to be a lot of unused grey space in KDE13:51
mungbeanalso using windows7 feels like kde too13:51
neuroi've been a voda customer most of the time between 1998 and now13:51
neurobounced out to orange then to t-mob then back to voda between 2005 and 2010 :)13:52
neurothis little synology dude is rather sweet13:57
neuromight suggest to my dad to get one, would handle a lot of stuff on their lan with the installable apps and save me doing stuff ;)13:58
mungbeanand you can plug a camera into it14:02
MartijnVdSsynologies are ♫14:15
MartijnVdSuh14:15
MartijnVdS14:15
MartijnVdS(U+2665, not U+266b)14:15
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mungbeanmy son has decide to answer every "no" question as "nope"...every time.14:29
mungbeanalso uses "yep" and i heard him say "whype" for why lol14:29
shaunoeh, you can't fault his logic :)14:32
mungbeanyeah, "nope" is same as no , daddy14:32
Azelphurhaha, aww14:33
mungbeani think he picks up new words from his granpa14:33
mungbeanhe started calling me "dad" suddenly after a visit14:33
mungbeantoday has been dreary14:38
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Azelphurmungbean: saw this one the other day, amused me http://imgur.com/r/funny/9LJ3R2h14:40
mungbeanheheh14:40
mungbeannot bad for /r/funny14:40
Azelphurindeed xD14:40
mungbeanis anyone aware of publically accessible data for populating surveys such as city-region-town that get pre-filled ?14:45
Azelphurmungbean: doesn't roboform do that?14:46
mungbeani mean get hold of a complete data set of cities and regions to pre-populate fields14:47
mungbeani.e i choose estonia as country, then have choice of region and then choice of cities in that region14:47
Azelphuroh, good question14:47
shaunomaxmind has a db for that (the same folks as the regular geoip db, but without the geoip)14:48
shaunoactually, http://www.geonames.org/export/ looks tidier since they actually specify a licence (CC-BY)14:52
mungbeannice work, cheers, will look at this14:53
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mungbeanthis actually kind of proves my point14:57
mungbeanwhat they wanted to do is unreasonable14:57
mungbeanthey should force the user to choose country from dropdown but cuty/region should be typed14:57
shaunotrying to force addresses is almost as hairy as trying to force names.  it has to be pretty freeform14:58
mungbeani agree but needed proof14:58
mungbeanand is enfield in middlesex or greater london...the concept is flawed14:59
shaunoeg, ireland doesn't have postcodes (outside of dublin), but making sure I had a postcode is usually your first step in validation14:59
shaunolet alone when you start running into places like india.  we have a customer whose address is "behind such & such hotel"15:00
mungbeanreally, no postcode?15:00
shaunothey're planned, but so far, nada15:00
shaunothe latest attempt is out for tender, and they're aiming for 201715:01
shaunoand then there's places like http://smartystreets.com that are under the impression that validating addresses is difficult enough that they can built a product/service around it15:03
mungbeanstate or country is the best yo'll feasibly be able to do yourself then15:08
mungbeanthis is the best list i found http://pastebin.com/ZmfqR5BR15:20
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sealHi Y'all.15:50
sealI have been reading http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/custom_authentication_provider.html and thinking of how to implement this both on a symfony2 based api server and consumer client.15:50
sealSo far my understanding is that I would implement, Token, Listener, AuthenticationProvider and Factory on the API Server. How about the client side?15:50
MartijnVdShttp://www.newsbiscuit.com/2013/07/28/hs2-abandoned-in-favour-of-rebuilding-birmingham-10-minutes-closer-to-london/16:07
sealSorry guys. Wrong IRC16:09
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MartijnVdSsigh.. flickr:17:59
MartijnVdSWoof! Martijn vdS!17:59
MartijnVdSNow you know how to greet people in Dog!17:59
diddledanomg, I needed to know that for a quiz yesterday18:02
MartijnVdSdiddledan: 8-018:03
MartijnVdS8-)18:03
diddledanwe've got lightning - I hope my UPS holds long enough once the power goes out (it's inevitable, right?)18:06
MartijnVdSI don't know18:06
MartijnVdSpower seems pretty steady where I live18:06
neuroi've not had a thunderstorm-related power outage since I moved here nearly 13 years ago18:06
MartijnVdSthough last time I was in the UK when there was a storm, the power went out18:07
MartijnVdSbut that was in Sennen18:07
MartijnVdSnot quite Land's End, but almost.18:07
diddledanI think land's end counts as "beyond civilisation"18:08
neuroi'm having a running argument with a slow person on Twitter about why ISPs should not be responsible for the data that is sent and received over their networks, i.e. the neutral carrier argument18:08
neurohe's citing megaupload and tpb as data points viz "it's not us, it's the users"18:09
neuroi think i'll have to school him on the difference between website operators and Internet Service Providers18:09
diddledanneuro: I'm worried where it will leave me 'cos I run a hotspot for my block of flats. I'm concerned that I'm expected to individually filter each person that connects and allow them to select the "I'm a pervert" button18:09
neurocross the bridge when it comes, mate18:10
neuroremember this is just a proposal right now, nowhere near legislation18:10
neuroso this is the best time to beat it down, when it's not a law that will take time to dismantle18:10
MartijnVdSa scary proposal18:10
neuroindeed18:10
diddledanthank dog18:10
neuroWoof!18:10
diddledanI've signed the petition that someone linked in here yesterday18:11
neurothe open rights group one?18:11
neuroor the e-petitions one?18:11
diddledanon the e-petitions government site18:11
neurohttps://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/cameron-stop-sleepwalking18:11
diddledan*signed*18:12
neuro</tesco>18:15
neuro(i.e. "Every little helps") :)18:15
neuroi think you were signature 3,999 :)18:15
diddledanlol, sweet18:16
neuroedge now $0.5m below target18:17
diddledan:-(18:17
neurothey're gonna need a helluva push18:17
neurowoo hoo18:43
neuroroot@intrepid:~# mount | grep cargobay2 | cut -d\( -f118:43
neurocargobay2:/volume1/data on /data/cargobays/2 type nfs18:43
neuro2 terabytey goodness18:44
MartijnVdSonly 2? ;)18:48
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diddledanneuro: I like the hostname :-)19:15
diddledaneveryone knows cargobay2 is the best of all the bays available19:15
mungbeanhas a petition ever achieved anything?19:57
brobostigona;an turing, possibly being pardoned by the government for his bad treatment by the government.19:58
popeyHillsborough documents being released?20:00
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ali1234wouldn't they have to release those documents eventually anyway, after like 50 years or something?20:15
mgdmyes, but by that point the people who should be held to account may no longer be about20:15
ali1234true20:16
ali1234alan turing has had loads of petitions and campaigning over the years20:16
ali1234they were lobbying to get him pardoned when i was at uni and that was 12 years ago20:17
ali1234so it's not really fair to put that all down to "a" petition20:17
mgdmNo20:17
ali1234though of course it surely helped20:17
mgdmthe problem with online petitions is they're far too easy to make and it's far too easy to sign one and think to yourself you've made some kind of difference20:17
mgdmwith the Turing thing, the campaign was big on various other media too20:18
ali1234otoh it's very easy to dismiss them like that and then do nothing at all20:18
mgdmfair point20:18
ali1234i signed the porn block one the other day20:19
ali1234i haven't signed any others that i can remember20:20
daftykinsi see their being online as carrying no weight20:20
daftykinsalthough actually i see no weight to any petition20:20
mungbeani signed a google drive native client one and realised it has all the power of a facebook "like"20:20
ali1234that's more like a straw poll though20:21
ali1234or free market research20:21
ali1234"do you want free stuff? y/n"20:21
mungbeanon a similar topic, how much would you sell your right to vote for?20:21
ali1234hmm20:21
ali1234not less than the amount needed to buy another one20:22
mungbeani voted for a major party even though they are all spectacularly bad20:24
ali1234as far as the government epetitions go, the way i see it, their weight is determined in context. that is, if a petition is very much more popular than all the others then it has some weight20:24
mungbeanor there's been an orchestrated twitter campaign20:25
ali1234so in a way, the dumb petitions people make do "help" - by providing a benchmark20:25
ali1234yeah, it's called canvassing and it always happens20:25
ali1234democracy doesn't spontaneously happen in a vacuum... you have to take all of that into account... which is exactly what i mean by looking at all of the petitions in context20:26
ali1234hmm actually, when you say "your right to vote" are you saying that the buying gets to choose who i vote for, or the vote just does not happen?20:28
ali1234these are actually quite different20:28
mungbeannot happen20:29
ali1234perhaps a couple of hundred pounds then, in that case20:30
mungbeanyou have choice of lifetime opt-out of voting, or just a one-off general election20:30
ali1234how much is poll tax... erm i mean council tax, these days?20:30
mungbeanwell over 100020:30
ali1234probably about that much20:30
mungbeanpoll tax woulda been cheaper20:31
ali1234i would definitely accept no tax == no vote, but only if it also applied to vat20:31
mungbeani only just reading about chromecast20:32
mungbeanhaven't seen g+ or twitter for 10 days or so20:32
ali1234chromecast looks neat20:32
popeyyeah20:33
popeycheap too20:33
ali1234nobody likes futzing behind the TV with cables ... when you finally get it working and show everyone your holiday snaps it is always incredibly anti-climactic20:33
daftykinsapparently they're almost done getting full android on it20:33
mungbeanseems to be a train/coach crash every day this week20:33
popeynot sure I'd want full android on it20:33
daftykinsmungbean: been something else since the Spain one? :o20:33
mungbeanswitz20:33
mungbeanand a coach in italy20:34
ali1234the whole point is you control it with the full android on your tablet, in your hand20:34
diddledandoes chromecast work with ubuntu, though?!20:34
ali1234it's like a wireless video connection20:34
popeydoesnt look like it20:34
ali1234diddledan: not yet anyway20:34
diddledanthen I call shenanigans20:34
popeybut they have had the remote youtube thing for a while20:34
popeyI remember sending youtube video to my desktop, must have been part of early development of chromecast20:34
ali1234yes20:35
ali1234well, you can remote control youtube on one device from another device, as long as they both run chrome20:35
ali1234which is exactly what chromecast does. so the smart money would say it's the same sauce20:35
mungbeanhttp://askubuntu.com/questions/324236/how-can-i-use-chromecast20:35
popeyAIUI the chromecast runs android - or at least some guts of it20:36
popeyas opposed to the chromeos OS20:36
ali1234meh20:36
mungbeanwho has chromium 28?20:36
popeyi do20:36
ali1234they're both linux and they can both run chrome (the browser)20:36
ali1234chromecast dongle doesn't need any menus and desktop widgets ergo it doesn't need much of chromeOS or android20:37
mungbeanwith extra netflix sauce?20:37
popeymy nexus 4 still doesn't have android 4.320:37
daftykinsnor mine20:37
daftykinsmy UK friend just flashed the recoveries on20:37
daftykinshttps://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occamjwr66v20:37
popeyif i knew where my kids nexus 7 was I'd see if that had it20:37
ali1234mine doesn't show any updates20:37
popeyyeah, downloaded it earlier, rather do OTA tho20:38
daftykinssame20:38
daftykinsnot like there's anything worth updating for anyway20:38
popeyI am going to drop it anyway and flash ubuntu on mine20:38
popeydoing a bit of a jiggle about20:38
mungbeanhttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cast/boadgeojelhgndaghljhdicfkmllpafd20:38
mungbeangoogle cast hare content from Chrome to Cast devices.20:39
mungbeanThe Google Cast extension enables you to find and play content on your Chromecast device from your Chrome browser.20:39
ali1234hare content?20:39
popeyin fact screw it, I'm flashing it now20:39
mungbeanShare20:39
ali1234like, lagomorphs?20:39
diddledanpopey: does the nexus7 version of ubuntu support the gsm modem yet?20:40
popeythe grouper has no gsm modem20:40
popeyi dont think we support the newer ones yet20:40
popeysomeone is welcome to port it :D20:40
ali1234it shouldn't be that hard to make it work though right?20:40
diddledanreally?20:41
diddledanI thought all three of the models were grouper (until the announcement the other day of a brand new model)20:41
ali1234no20:42
ali1234it's never that simple20:42
diddledanfudge20:42
popey\o/ flashed20:42
ali1234that was fast!20:42
popeywell.. flashing...20:42
ali1234oh, ok :(20:43
popeyandroid with spinning pants20:43
popeys/pants/tummy/20:43
popeythe new flashing process should be quicker I think20:44
ali1234speaking of hare content, did anyone see that TV channel for dogs thing the other day?20:44
ali1234not sure if i was reading the onion or not20:45
ali1234http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-2171973120:46
ali1234apparently i was not20:46
popey\o/ flashed20:48
diddledanso, if my nexus 7 is not grouper, how come most things worked last time I tried it?20:50
ali1234cos it's similar?20:50
ali1234the code name doesn't really tell you much more than the product name20:51
isleofmandanHello, from my shiny new XPS 13 Developer Edition ;)20:52
popey20:52
brobostigongrouper as i understand it, the wifi only nexus7, and tilapia is the 2012 gsm and wifi model.20:52
ali1234isleofmandan: was it you who impulse bought it the other day?20:53
isleofmandanYes20:53
ali1234so, i take it you're happy with it then?20:53
isleofmandan:)20:53
popeyI met Barton George from Dell last week.20:53
popeywho runs the Sputnik programme20:53
popeyvery nice chap20:53
isleofmandanSo far so good. A few niggles, but it's Linux ;)20:53
popeyif you have niggles, call support20:54
ali1234popey: that the guy who did the hangout?20:54
popeythey are replacing the intel wifi cards under warranty20:54
isleofmandanVery minor. E.g. Installer didn't set my locale properly20:54
popeydunno, didnt see it20:54
daftykinsisleofmandan: does yours still default to US?20:54
popeyyou using the install that came on it? 12.04?20:54
ali1234lol, i only watched it cos you plugged it20:54
popeyhah20:54
popeypowah!20:54
popeyI also buy miracle grow20:55
isleofmandanAnd it has some weird windowsy/dosy partition called DELLUTILITY that just seems to waste space20:55
popeythats the recovery part20:55
isleofmandanpopey: yes, out of the box install of 12.0420:55
popeyso if it borks you can reinstall20:55
ali1234handy20:55
ali1234ubuntu should have that by default20:55
popey+100020:55
daftykinswasting disk space, ugh20:55
ali1234would save me making boot disks all the time20:55
ali1234i don;t care about space i have a 100GB /20:56
diddledanthere'd be evil version skew involved tho after a few years from purchase20:56
ali1234just put the iso in a bootable partition during install please20:56
isleofmandanThere's another 3GB partition that I assmed was recovery... So the DELLUTILITY boots the other one?20:56
popeydiddledan: how so?20:56
ali1234there's typically two recovery partitions on OEM hardware20:56
diddledanpopey: I'm assuming that dell aren't going to update the recovery partition every ubuntu release20:57
isleofmandanali1234: thanks20:57
ali1234one for the OS reinstaller, the other for OEM specific stuff like drivers and also maybe a user backup tool20:57
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ali1234and other utils they like to stuff in there20:57
popeydiddledan: does any OEM?20:57
popeyfor any OS?20:57
ali1234no idea how it maps to ubuntu but i guess it's similar20:57
diddledanpopey: exactly20:57
popeyso no different20:58
isleofmandandaftykins: yes, defaulted to US20:58
popeyits called "factory reset" for a reason ☻20:58
ali1234factory reset isn't always factory reset (lenovo!)20:58
popeyi used to like the asus eee 701/900 way of doing it in xandrois20:58
popey-i20:58
popeywhere you boot and hold f9 and it resets to factory20:59
popeyby deleting the overlay partition which you were using20:59
isleofmandanAlso, the 'Developer Edition' doesn't seem to have any dev tools. Only thing I've found above a standard install is VirtualBox. I was expecting magic cloud tools, and some sort of IDE.20:59
ali1234lenovos have a special button dedicated to factory reset... which shows how much confidence they have in their software20:59
popeydev tools = git i think ☻20:59
ali1234it turns out this lack of confidence is not misplaced, because the thing doesn't work20:59
popeyheh, at UDS in prague someone stabbed the "Media" button on Jono's dell laptop, it booted into media mode, and splatted grub in the process21:00
popeywas fun21:00
ali1234lolol21:00
popeyturns out it was a great way to troll anyone with that laptop21:00
popeyjust poke the media buton21:00
popey+t21:00
ali1234on the lenovo you have to wait 24 hours after reset before you do the first boot into windows, or it errors out21:01
ali1234something to do with the broken way windows deals with the system clock, and the way NTFS records timestamps21:01
popeyhttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1937035674/leadwerks-build-linux-games-on-linux21:02
popeynot looking bad21:02
ali1234$30,000 is cheap21:02
ali1234if it costs $x million to make an email client, how can these guys make a whole game creation system for $20,000?21:03
popeywell, it already exists21:03
popeythey're "just" porting it21:03
ali1234oh.21:03
isleofmandanStill, niggles aside, I've come out of my beer-induced impulse XPS buy quite happily. I've never owned a machine that can open the software centre in under 40 seconds before!21:03
popeyhaha21:03
* popey tests how long it takes here from a fairly clean boot21:03
popeyopen in 3s, usable in 5s21:04
ali1234pretty much the same here21:04
isleofmandanMy Intel Atom based desktop (which I'll never use again, it seems!) takes about 47 seconds to be useable. The thing launches in about 20 with a spinny thing, goes gray, white, gray, and finally loads21:05
popeysounds about right for atom with spinning rust21:05
ali1234hmm blender integration...21:05
ali1234lol, they want $150,000 to support any linux distro other than ubuntu21:06
ali1234and $250,000 for ubuntu mobile support21:07
ali1234LOL21:07
* isleofmandan wonders where XPS 13 owners hang out? Is there an official support forum or anything?21:10
popeythere's a dell community site21:11
ali1234ew21:11
popeywell, indeed21:12
isleofmandanpopey: Thanks just found it, along with the Launchpad bug pages.21:16
neuroi just spent an hour writing up a blog post about the pron filter stuff21:18
neurosquarespace just ate it21:18
neurothe words i have just uttered are unrepeatable here21:18
diddledanneuro: nasty21:18
diddledanbut not as nasty as some prons :-p21:19
daftykinsisleofmandan: ubuntu's installer used to do that for Guernsey and Jersey, it took over 4 years but it eventually got 'fixed' somehow - my bug report never got touched though so i don't know what happened21:19
diddledanwe're at 7.1mil21:20
isleofmandandaftykins: I've not noticed the problem on 'stock' Ubuntu .iso's in the last couple of years, so assumed it was specific to this Dell setup.21:20
daftykinsinteresting21:21
neuroThis is a total shadow of what i wanted it to be: http://neuro.me.uk/blog/2013/7/29/it-couldnt-happen-here-could-it21:26
diddledanneuro: you don't think squarespace might be colluding with the Britsh Government and censured you21:27
neuroha21:28
diddledanstranger things have happened, but the British Government won't let me tell you about them :-p21:28
ali1234wait, why are the ORG running their own petition when there's one on epetitions already?21:33
neurodo you really think the e-petition one will have any weight, at all?21:33
ali1234yes, i explained why earlier21:34
ali1234if anything it will have more weight because when you look at it in context with the rest of the site, it obviously has much more support21:34
ali1234more support than all the other petitions on epetitions i mean21:35
ali1234precisely because online petitions are so trivial, you can only measure them in comparison with other petitions21:36
ali1234the ORG one doesn't even verify your email address is real :/21:37
ali1234signed it, anyway21:38
* isleofmandan goes to bed.... Goodnight!22:03
ali1234disqus says "there could be consequences to changing your username. are you sure you want to do it?" what are the consequences? how can i even answer this question?23:20
shaunonicely worried.  you're not too attached to your kneecaps, right?23:24
shaunoer, *worded23:24
ali1234hah. worried is more correct23:46

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